Minna613 (also known as Chai)

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF AGAINST COGNITIVE WARFARE: LESSONS FROM A MARRIOTT BALLROOM Cognitive warfare isn't only disinformation. It is the use of language, symbols and psychology to shape and influence what we think. I took a well-practiced reporting methodology into the Marriott ballroom when I went to hear Abdul El-Sayed speak last Friday night — and I hope that some of my methodology will help you the next time you confront cognitive warfare directed at you. I try to lay out all of my efforts piercing the cognitive warfare in my new @FoxNews Digital piece. My goal: move us from darkness to light 🔆 🔆 1) Hear how words are weaponized. "Free from Zionists" invokes the concept of "freedom" but the term has a very different and even violent consequence. Pierce through the rhetoric to consider what the actual consequence of even inspiring words would be. What does "Free Palestine" mean? Where is a "free Palestine"? Press for answers. Then you'll learn, it means the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. 🔆 2) Notice contested slogans. "From the river to the sea" is offered as a freedom chant in the ballroom. It's a battle cry to many Jews, calling for the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state. Ask yourself the question: what river? What sea? What's in between? Then you'll be able to process: it's a land called Israel. 🔆 3) Watch who is standing together. When a Mao cap, a keffiyeh and a senator-elect share one celebration, that is data. Unusual alliances often share a target, even if they don't share an endgame. 🔆 4) Value the nonverbal as much as the spoken word. A senator-elect's silent presence when a foundation chairman calls for freeing Palestine "from the river to the sea" and eliminating "Zionists" is part of the movement's script. El-Sayed listened quietly. The chairman said the quiet part out loud. El-Sayed didn't protest. Both facts are worthy of our attention. 🔆 5) Break the fourth wall. Follow the money and the infrastructure, not just the applause and what is happening where the cameras are pointed. Endorsements, spending, who is in the front row, who is in the back of the room, they're all part of the story. Who is filming and packaging the story is also part of the narrative. We don't have to be experts to protect ourselves from cognitive warfare.. We just have to be willing to slow down, hear the words, watch the signs and refuse to outsource our understanding to a chant, a meme. a viral video or the person standing at the microphone. You got this! foxnews.com/politics/asra-no…